Franconia football team

Franconia

Nickname(s)	Franken-Elf (Franken 11)
Association	Franconian Football Association [1] [2]
Confederation	ConIFA
Head coach	Rudi Schiebel
Home stadium	Lohr am Main
First colours
First international
Franconia 4–2 Raetia   (Lohr am Main; 29 May 2014)
Biggest win
Franconia 4–2 Raetia   (Lohr am Main; 29 May 2014)
Biggest defeat
Raetia 6–0 Franconia   (Chur; 6 September 2015)
CONIFA European Football Cup
Appearances	0

The Franconia football team, also called Franken 11, ^[3] is a team representing the people of Franconia, located in south-central Germany. ^{[4] [5] [6]}

History

The team was founded in 2014 by Rudi Schiebel. They played their first game against Raetia on 29 May 2014; this game was opposed by the Bavarian Football Association as it claimed to be exclusively responsible for organizing any "selected teams." ^[7]

They entered the 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup but later withdrew. Franconia also took part in the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification but failed to make it through to the finals.

References

1. "No joke: Region in Germany wants to start it's [sic] own national team - HITC". HITC . 2014-03-14. Archived from the original on 2025-08-26. Retrieved 2025-08-26. Helmuth Weisensel, 51 years old, doesn't feel represented in his Franconian identity by either one of the two professional clubs in that region, which is why he has been working on forming a Franconian national team for almost a year now. Together with the separatist Franconian Union, he founded the Franconian Football Association and then asked the Bavarian Football Association if they could help him to organize a friendly match. Surprisingly they agreed to this idea but only under the condition that they would organize it themselves because they didn' want to acknowledge his FFA.
2. Przybilla, Olaf (2013-11-09). "Franken will eigene Nationalmannschaft" [Franconia wants its own national team]. Süd Deutsche (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-09-15. Retrieved 2025-08-26. Es gibt zwar jetzt schon den Fränkischen Fußball-Bund, wir sind da zu dritt. Aber den haben wir nur für den Fall gegründet, sollten wir selbst mal bei einer WM mitmachen. Auf dem Papier quasi.[There's already the Franconian Football Association, and there are three of us in it. But we only founded it in case we should ever participate in a World Cup ourselves. On paper, so to speak.]
3. "FA Raetia". www.facebook.com.
4. Hendicott, James (2019). CONIFA: Football for the Forgotten. Lulu.com. ISBN   9780244173630 – via Google Books.
5. "Franconia".
6. Hofmann, Benjamin (12 March 2014). "Separatismus im Fußball: Elf Franken sollt ihr sein". Die Tageszeitung: Taz.
7. "FRANCONIA". 9 July 2014.